Tent-peg.



e. s. BERGEN.

TENT PEG.

APPLICATION FILED 0:0. 4. 1916.

I Patented Jan. 8, 1918.

GEORGE B. BERGEN, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

TENT-PEG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 8, 1918.

Application filed December 4, 1916. Serial No. 134,852.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnonen B. BERGEN, a citizen of the United States,and resident of Springfield, in the county of Clark and State of Ohio,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tent-Pegs, of

which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to anchoring devices and has particular referenceto a novel tent peg or anchor for a tent guy rope.

The common practice in anchoring guy ropes or wires is to drive a stake,peg or post into the earth at an inclination of substantially 90 to theline of pull. If the ground is soft, much difficulty is experienced inpreventing the peg or stake from turning on its point as a center; thatis, displacing a quantity of soil near the top of the ground. Thiseffect can be minimized by using a longer peg, but a peg which willserve to securely anchor a rope in soft ground can be driven into hardground only with difficulty and in any case a large portion of the pegprojects above the ground.

An object in the present invention is to provide a simple contrivancewhich is adapted for use as an anchor for guy ropes or wires and soarranged that to displace the same the soil throughout the length of thepeg must be displaced equally; that is, instead of bending or rockingthe peg in the soil, it must be moved bodily sidewise through the soilto displace it.

By reason of this function the peg may be made relatively short and beadapted for use either in soft or hard soil. In any case, theconstruction is such that there is practically no projection above theground over which a person may stumble.

The invention will be more readily understood by reference to theaccompanying drawings, wherein- Figure l is a side elevation of a tentand guy rope anchor arranged in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged elevation of the peg showing its relation to therope;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same; and

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line l-l: of Fig. 2.

In the drawings, the tent is indicated at 10, a guy rope 11 being shownhaving a loop 12 at one end by which that end of the rope is permanentlyunited to the peg or anchoring device. The anchor is in this instanceshown as comprising two legs l3, 1%, having pointed or tapered ends, aneye 15 being provided at the junction of the tvo legs. The loop 12engages this eye. The desired object, as far as the anchoring capacityis concerned, is secured by causing the leg which enters the ground tobe retained at all times in the same angular relation to the guy rope;that is, at substantially 90 to the rope. This result is secured byproviding an elongated band 16, which encircles the rope and the outerend of the leg 13, being held in position by gravity or by being wedgedon the inclined portion of the leg. It will be noted that I haveprovided legs of two different lengths and that either thereof isadapted to enter the ground while the other acts in the capacity shownin the drawing; that is, the capacity of maintaining the free leg inparallelism with the guy rope.

It will be seen that a pull applied to the guy rope 11 will not rock thepeg in the soil and that to displace the peg all the soil thereabovemust be displaced as the peg must be moved bodily in a line parallelwith the line of pull on the rope.

It is obvious that the device might be used for anchoring guy wires forposts, either temporarily or permanently, and that other uses might bemade thereof, all without departure from the spirit of my invention.

I claim:

1. In a tent peg, the combination of a bar of metal bent to a rightangle and providing an eye at the junction of the two members, a ropeadapted to be fastened to the eye and a removable fastening device forcausing the rope to lie alongside of one of said members, substantiallyas described.

2. In a tent peg, the combination of a bar bent to provide twosubstantially right angularly disposed legs having an eye at thejunction thereof, a rope adapted to be secured to the eye, and a bandslidable on bent to provide tWo substantially right angularly disposedlegs having an eye at the junction thereof, the terminal portions ofsaid legs being pointed, a rope secured to the eye, a band slidable onthe rope and adapted to be wedged on the pointed end 10 of a leg to holdthe rope in parallelism thereto, substantially as described.

Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 1st day GEO. B. BERGEN. Witnesses:

C. F. MURRAY, T. D. BUTLER.

of December 1916.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe. Commissioner of Patents, Washington, 110. r

